Several thousand people demonstrated outside Hungary’s parliament on Sunday, telling the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to respect its Western ties a day before a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The West has watched with growing alarm as Orbán’s centre-right Fidesz party has edged closer to Russia at a time of an escalating conflict in Ukraine. Two weeks after Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin is also expected in Budapest.

Protesters held up signs and chanted slogans to demand that Hungary stay within the EU’s fold and away from the Kremlin’s orbit, demanding Orbán’s ouster for eroding democratic freedoms, perceived corruption and diplomatic conflicts with the West.

Helped by a weak opposition, Orbán remains firmly in control of Hungary and of the party he has led for most of its 27-year history and he does not face another parliamentary election until 2018.

Protesters held up several signs written in German, meant as direct messages to Merkel. One read: “Our Angela! Please deliver us from evil! We want to stay EU citizens.”

Vilmos Torok, the protester who held up that sign, said: “We are brothers here in Europe with Germans. I expect her to tell Orbán to back off, behave in a more European way… His disrespect for liberal freedoms has earned him the Little Putin moniker in Europe – but also in Hungary.”

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I see and now asking the E.U. for help …because th elected Erdogan is acting like a dictator !
Hungary is not under E.U. constituion nor can the E.U. do something against Erdogan!
I think Hungarians should taste the Russian spaghett which Erdogan is warming up now !
However the danger for peeing on Erdogan like Janukovic may be possible today !